Question about Windows licensing
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
It's a FragBox from Falcon NorthWest which cost over $4K so one can understand their position, given such thin margins
Well there's your problem, you bought a ripoff in a box. Having already IIRC soaked you for something like a grand, and using inferior quality parts to the DIY used in the comparison, what's another $20 down the rat hole.
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dan neely wrote:
Well there's your problem, you bought a ripoff in a box.
Yah, I know it was ridiculously expensive but I had some rather specific requirements that I can't have met here in Thailand (at least not without a lot of fscking around). I don't have the time to learn how to build a machine from scratch, especially not a high-performance small form factor one, so it was just a case of paying the extra money to get one built. The actual box itself was about $3800 but shipping was quite painful. Awasu just closed a big deal[^] so I figured I might spoil myself a bit :jig:
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Try Ubuntu also. I am very pleased with it, although it gave me a hard time installing the DLink WiFi card. Thomas
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
So you're back in Australia?
Meh, I'm still in Thailand, I'm just getting the disc shipped to Australia :-) I won't be needing it in a hurry :rolleyes:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
the bandwidth or the coup d'état?
The bandwidth still sucks. the coup was something of a non-event. It's business as usual, with the government and military faffing around trying to figure out what to do next and generally ballsing it up. Witness the recent shenanigans with the currency, foreign investments and visas. The fiasco with the new airport was long coming, although it's still surprising just how quickly it all fell apart after it was opened.
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Actually, the fact that you mentioned Australian dollars was not the only reason I asked if you were back - your bio says your location is Australia. I guess you never changed it when you moved to Thailand. :) Just a shot in the dark, but were you British-educated?
Cheers, Vikram.
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Actually, the fact that you mentioned Australian dollars was not the only reason I asked if you were back - your bio says your location is Australia. I guess you never changed it when you moved to Thailand. :) Just a shot in the dark, but were you British-educated?
Cheers, Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Actually, the fact that you mentioned Australian dollars was not the only reason I asked if you were back - your bio says your location is Australia. I guess you never changed it when you moved to Thailand.
Yes, I actually prefer to keep it a bit quiet. Awasu is an *Australian* company, not a Thai one :-)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Just a shot in the dark, but were you British-educated?
Hmmm, what makes you say that?
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dan neely wrote:
Well there's your problem, you bought a ripoff in a box.
Yah, I know it was ridiculously expensive but I had some rather specific requirements that I can't have met here in Thailand (at least not without a lot of fscking around). I don't have the time to learn how to build a machine from scratch, especially not a high-performance small form factor one, so it was just a case of paying the extra money to get one built. The actual box itself was about $3800 but shipping was quite painful. Awasu just closed a big deal[^] so I figured I might spoil myself a bit :jig:
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Congrats on closing the deal, mate! Sounds great. :-D
Cheers, Vikram.
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Congrats on closing the deal, mate! Sounds great. :-D
Cheers, Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Congrats on closing the deal, mate! Sounds great.
Thanks. It's been hard work but deals like this make it worthwhile :-)
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Bradml wrote:
That's odd
Odd ain't the word for it. All this faffing around, but I can get a DVD with every version of Windows ever made down at Panthip Plaza for about ten bucks :-| They throw in every version of DOS as well, just in case :laugh:
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Panthip Plaza
Brings back memories! :~ Not all good ones. X| I remember going through Pantip and being accosted by mobs of hawkers trying to sell me "sexy movies". :sigh: I decided that I would try to back them down by asking for "sexy movies" of them. X| When asked if I wanted a "sexy movie" I responded with "sexy movie you" and pointed at them. :omg: After repeating this a few times they would realize what I was asking for, blush and say no. :-O Since I wear a palm frond pith helmet, popular with up-country farmers -- the kind you see the North Vietnamese Regulars wearing on the American War documentaries -- I was remembered. I actually walked through Pantip a few months later and didn't get any offers of "sexy movies" from any of the hawkers. :cool: Apparently they remembered me as the crazy farang who wanted to see them in a "sexy movie". :rolleyes:
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Actually, the fact that you mentioned Australian dollars was not the only reason I asked if you were back - your bio says your location is Australia. I guess you never changed it when you moved to Thailand.
Yes, I actually prefer to keep it a bit quiet. Awasu is an *Australian* company, not a Thai one :-)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Just a shot in the dark, but were you British-educated?
Hmmm, what makes you say that?
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Yes, I actually prefer to keep it a bit quiet.
o...k... :~
Taka Muraoka wrote:
Hmmm, what makes you say that?
Well, your English is very good - nearly indistinguishable from a native speaker's, and waay better than the average Japanese's. The reason I asked now is your use of the word faffing. You haven't answered my question yet. ;)
Cheers, Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
So you're back in Australia?
Meh, I'm still in Thailand, I'm just getting the disc shipped to Australia :-) I won't be needing it in a hurry :rolleyes:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
the bandwidth or the coup d'état?
The bandwidth still sucks. the coup was something of a non-event. It's business as usual, with the government and military faffing around trying to figure out what to do next and generally ballsing it up. Witness the recent shenanigans with the currency, foreign investments and visas. The fiasco with the new airport was long coming, although it's still surprising just how quickly it all fell apart after it was opened.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
it's still surprising just how quickly it all fell apart after it was opened
I guess Mr. T wasn't being honest when he vouched for the contractors being able to fix the minor discrepancies before opening. :doh: If I remember correctly he made the Bangkok Post retract the stories about the international inspectors finding cracks in the run ways and taxi ways or face criminal prosecution for slandering him. X| Typical Mr. T style! :rolleyes:
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Yes, I actually prefer to keep it a bit quiet.
o...k... :~
Taka Muraoka wrote:
Hmmm, what makes you say that?
Well, your English is very good - nearly indistinguishable from a native speaker's, and waay better than the average Japanese's. The reason I asked now is your use of the word faffing. You haven't answered my question yet. ;)
Cheers, Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
your English is very good - nearly indistinguishable from a native speaker's
Well, thank you. That'd be because I am a native speaker. I don't speak Japanese :-)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
The reason I asked now is your use of the word faffing.
Ah, that's what gave me away :-) Yes, I grew up in England until I was about 11 when we went to Australia.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Panthip Plaza
Brings back memories! :~ Not all good ones. X| I remember going through Pantip and being accosted by mobs of hawkers trying to sell me "sexy movies". :sigh: I decided that I would try to back them down by asking for "sexy movies" of them. X| When asked if I wanted a "sexy movie" I responded with "sexy movie you" and pointed at them. :omg: After repeating this a few times they would realize what I was asking for, blush and say no. :-O Since I wear a palm frond pith helmet, popular with up-country farmers -- the kind you see the North Vietnamese Regulars wearing on the American War documentaries -- I was remembered. I actually walked through Pantip a few months later and didn't get any offers of "sexy movies" from any of the hawkers. :cool: Apparently they remembered me as the crazy farang who wanted to see them in a "sexy movie". :rolleyes:
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I remember going through Pantip and being accosted by mobs of hawkers trying to sell me "sexy movies".
Yes :-) I go to Fortune Tower about as much as I do to Pantip these days but I find it quite boring :-) No hawkers, no hassles, no guys grabbing your arm :rolleyes: The guys at Pantip know well enough to leave me alone these days...
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
it's still surprising just how quickly it all fell apart after it was opened
I guess Mr. T wasn't being honest when he vouched for the contractors being able to fix the minor discrepancies before opening. :doh: If I remember correctly he made the Bangkok Post retract the stories about the international inspectors finding cracks in the run ways and taxi ways or face criminal prosecution for slandering him. X| Typical Mr. T style! :rolleyes:
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
If I remember correctly he made the Bangkok Post retract the stories about the international inspectors finding cracks in the run ways and taxi ways or face criminal prosecution for slandering him.
That actually came up in the press again this week. The Bangkok Post fired the journalist who posted the story and there are now calls for him to be reinstated (or least apologized to :laugh::laugh::laugh: fat chance :|). It's actually gone from bad to worse. They now think the airport is sinking into the swamp (who would've ever thought that could possibly happen :rolleyes:), and there has been talk for weeks already about re-opening Don Muang because Suvarnabhumi is *already* at full capacity :omg: A worker died the other day because some scaffolding was overloaded, luggage was damaged today by leaking toilets, it's almost beyond belief.
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JimmyRopes wrote:
I remember going through Pantip and being accosted by mobs of hawkers trying to sell me "sexy movies".
Yes :-) I go to Fortune Tower about as much as I do to Pantip these days but I find it quite boring :-) No hawkers, no hassles, no guys grabbing your arm :rolleyes: The guys at Pantip know well enough to leave me alone these days...
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
I go to Fortune Tower about as much as I do to Pantip these days but I find it quite boring No hawkers, no hassles, no guys grabbing your arm
Never been to Fortune Tower but I did go to some other Plaza (forget the name) and it didn't have the ambiance of Pantip. :~ I took a SongTiou on Tannon Onnut and a bus from some major intersection to it just past the Secon Mall (or some such named mall). A lot smaller than Pantip; only one floor devoted to electronics. It was a bit boring but the prices were good and it was a lot closer to where I was staying at the time (Onnut Soi Yii Sip). Usually I stay on Eckami Soi Yii Sip Sam and take the klong boat to Pra Tu Nam, an adventure in itself, and walk from there to Pantip. The last few times I would come in on the overnight train from Buriram, do my business and take the night train back the same day. I have very little tolerance for Bangkok these days. I grew up in New York City so big cities do not impress me. When I was younger I used to go to clubs but now it is into the city for business and out again as quickly as possible.
Taka Muraoka wrote:
The guys at Pantip know well enough to leave me alone these days...
What is your technique for backing them off? I found the perverted Farang ruse to work quite well. Apparently they were embarrassed to be considered Katoi.
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JimmyRopes wrote:
If I remember correctly he made the Bangkok Post retract the stories about the international inspectors finding cracks in the run ways and taxi ways or face criminal prosecution for slandering him.
That actually came up in the press again this week. The Bangkok Post fired the journalist who posted the story and there are now calls for him to be reinstated (or least apologized to :laugh::laugh::laugh: fat chance :|). It's actually gone from bad to worse. They now think the airport is sinking into the swamp (who would've ever thought that could possibly happen :rolleyes:), and there has been talk for weeks already about re-opening Don Muang because Suvarnabhumi is *already* at full capacity :omg: A worker died the other day because some scaffolding was overloaded, luggage was damaged today by leaking toilets, it's almost beyond belief.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
That actually came up in the press again this week. The Bangkok Post fired the journalist who posted the story and there are now calls for him to be reinstated (or least apologized to fat chance )
I agree, fat chance. TIT :doh:
Taka Muraoka wrote:
They now think the airport is sinking into the swamp (who would've ever thought that could possibly happen ),
It didn't get the name NongNuHao (cobra swamp) for nothing. :rolleyes: Then there were those nasty allegations that the contractors hired by Mr. T's cronies had substituted inferior materials. :~ Who would have thought that possible? :rolleyes:
Taka Muraoka wrote:
there has been talk for weeks already about re-opening Don Muang because Suvarnabhumi is *already* at full capacity
Luckily Mr. T took an early retirement or he would have converted Don Muang into a market by now, as he had planned. X|
Taka Muraoka wrote:
luggage was damaged today by leaking toilets
I guess the few toilets that there are are now self destructing. X| Maybe they should ask Mr. T if he will vouch for the hong nam contractors too. :confused:
Taka Muraoka wrote:
it's almost beyond belief.
TIT - nothing is beyond belief.
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dan neely wrote:
Well there's your problem, you bought a ripoff in a box.
Yah, I know it was ridiculously expensive but I had some rather specific requirements that I can't have met here in Thailand (at least not without a lot of fscking around). I don't have the time to learn how to build a machine from scratch, especially not a high-performance small form factor one, so it was just a case of paying the extra money to get one built. The actual box itself was about $3800 but shipping was quite painful. Awasu just closed a big deal[^] so I figured I might spoil myself a bit :jig:
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Awasu just closed a big deal
Congratulations. :cool:
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
I go to Fortune Tower about as much as I do to Pantip these days but I find it quite boring No hawkers, no hassles, no guys grabbing your arm
Never been to Fortune Tower but I did go to some other Plaza (forget the name) and it didn't have the ambiance of Pantip. :~ I took a SongTiou on Tannon Onnut and a bus from some major intersection to it just past the Secon Mall (or some such named mall). A lot smaller than Pantip; only one floor devoted to electronics. It was a bit boring but the prices were good and it was a lot closer to where I was staying at the time (Onnut Soi Yii Sip). Usually I stay on Eckami Soi Yii Sip Sam and take the klong boat to Pra Tu Nam, an adventure in itself, and walk from there to Pantip. The last few times I would come in on the overnight train from Buriram, do my business and take the night train back the same day. I have very little tolerance for Bangkok these days. I grew up in New York City so big cities do not impress me. When I was younger I used to go to clubs but now it is into the city for business and out again as quickly as possible.
Taka Muraoka wrote:
The guys at Pantip know well enough to leave me alone these days...
What is your technique for backing them off? I found the perverted Farang ruse to work quite well. Apparently they were embarrassed to be considered Katoi.
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I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopesJimmyRopes wrote:
What is your technique for backing them off?
Over the years, I have perfected my dirty glare. If necessary, a forceful "FUCK OFF" will usually do the trick.
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JimmyRopes wrote:
What is your technique for backing them off?
Over the years, I have perfected my dirty glare. If necessary, a forceful "FUCK OFF" will usually do the trick.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Over the years, I have perfected my dirty glare. If necessary, a forceful "f*** OFF" will usually do the trick
I used to use similar tactics but had a hard time trying to keep a mean face. :| I think I'll stick with "sexy movie you"! :~
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